Skin manifestations of liver diseases - medigraphic.com

sacea and rhinophyma are common but often overlooked by the busy practitioner. More subtle signs include scratch marks, loss of axillary hair and gynaecomastia. Ascites can lead to striae (Figure 4) and an umbilical her-nia (Figure 5). Skin findings in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) Xanthelasmas are collections of lipid-ladenhistiocytes

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